Schnittke: Voices of Nature, for ten women's voices & vibraphone (Golosa Prirodï / Stimmen der Natur)

‘One of the most imposing of all Schnittke’s later works … superbly performed’ (The Guardian)

“Warmth of expression and passionately projected performance can be heard throughout this recording, and something like 'Oh my soul, why are you not afraid?' has it all...Schnittke’s Twelve Penitential Psalms is one of the choral masterpieces of the last century, and this is a recording which conveys its full, angst-ridden glory.” MusicWeb International, June 2012

“Schnittke's Choir Concerto is the major work here… As a stunning kind of evocation of all the Russian Orthodox church music one has ever heard, and yet masterfully composed with a powerful sense of architecture and inner logic, it's surely up there with Rachmaninov's Vespers. There is already an excellent recent version from the Holst Singers under Stephen Layton on Hyperion... But this new BIS version, it is has more recorded resonance, also exudes greater warmth - it's a refulgently passionate performance in which the Concerto emerges as simultaneously more ardent and more monumental, despite Tõnu Kalijuste's relatively faster tempi.” BBC Music Magazine, November 2004 *****